Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
HENRI BERGSONEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
More Henri Bergson Quotes
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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